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Trump accuses director Spike Lee of 'racist hit' after Oscars acceptance speech

By CAITLIN OPRYSKO

President Donald Trump lashed out at director Spike Lee on Monday, calling the filmmaker out after he used his Oscars acceptance speech Sunday night to urge viewers to vote against Trump and “be on the right side of history” in the 2020 election.

“Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all, when doing his racist hit on your President, who has done more for African Americans (Criminal Justice Reform, Lowest Unemployment numbers in History, Tax Cuts, etc.) than almost any other Pres!” Trump wrote in a tweet, listing accomplishments that his administration has claimed through two years in office.

Lee on Sunday took home his first-ever Academy Award, winning Best Adapted Screenplay for his movie BlacKkKlansman, which is based on the true story of a black Colorado detective who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado in the 1970s. The film alludes regularly to the current political and cultural climate in the U.S. and concludes with a coda of footage from a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and of the president remarking that there had been "very fine people on both sides" of the march.

Lee focused his acceptance speech on the progress of African Americans, telling the audience that his grandmother graduated college and worked to pay for his own college education despite being the daughter of a slave. But he also took a shot at the president, calling for Trump’s defeat in next year’s presidential election.

“The 2020 presidential election is around the corner. Let’s all mobilize. Let’s all be on the right side of history,” he said, frequently referencing his notes. “Make the moral choice between love versus hate. Let’s do the right thing.”

The veteran filmmaker has long had an activist streak, and has frequently criticized Trump, using expletives to refer to the president at times and blaming him for an uptick in racial tensions in recent years.

Lee was far from the only Academy Award winner who referred to notes when delivering their acceptance speeches Sunday, nor was he the only attendee who took thinly veiled shots at the president during their time on stage.

In the opening monologue of the show, actress Maya Rudolph took a dig at Trump, lumping his reversal on having Mexico pay for a border wall in with the reversal of the Academy in creating a popular movie category and its decision to not have a host for this year’s awards.

“Just a quick update for everybody in case you’re confused,” she said. “There is no host tonight. There won’t be a popular movie category. And Mexico is not paying for the wall."